Wanda Hendrix Filmography

Bewitched: TV or Not TV

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White, John Gallaudet

Synopsis: While watching a TV kiddie show, Tabitha makes the show's Punch and Judy puppets come to life. Duly impressed by Tabitha's "ventriloquist" skills, the show's sponsor -- who happens to be Darrin's new client -- offers the girl a regular speaking role on the show. Problem is, Tabitha doesn't really Read More

Stage to Thunder Rock

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Marilyn Maxwell, Keenan Wynn, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Synopsis: In this western adventure, a sheriff prepares to retire and finds himself forced to deal with his past when he is assigned to round up a gang of outlaws comprised of the sons of the man who raised him after his own parents were killed. The sheriff has to kill one of the desperadoes. The other he Read More

Johnny Cool

Actors: Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Marc Lawrence, Richard Anderson, Telly Savalas, Jim Backus, Joey Bishop

Synopsis: In this offbeat crime drama, Mafia boss Johnny Colini (Marc Lawrence) has run afoul of the law and is being deported back to his native Sicily. Colini is not at all happy about this, and after he saves the life of a young thug, Johnny Giordano (Henry Silva), he knows the perfect way for Giordano Read More

Boy Who Caught a Crook

Actors: Wanda Hendrix, Roger Mobley, Johnny Seven, Robert Stevenson

Synopsis: In this children's movie, an adorable newsboy, his dog, and his friend the hobo accidently stumble across a briefcase containing $100,000. It belongs to a desperate thief who definitely wants it back. The honest child, not knowing the loot is stolen, looks for its owner. Fortunately the police Read More

Highway Dragnet

Actors: Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley, Mary Beth Hughes

Synopsis: Highway Dragnet is best known to modern movie buffs as the first film to carry Roger Corman's name in the credits. Corman was one of six screenwriters contributing to this location-filmed suspense melodrama, which stars Richard Conte as an ex-Marine on the lam from a murder charge. Conte hitches a Read More

The Black Dakotas

Actors: Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrix, John Bromfield

Synopsis: Gary Merrill heads the cast of the unorthodox western The Black Dakotas. The story is set during the Civil War, as President Lincoln tries to mollify the Sioux Indians in order to free up soldiers for more important fighting. Disguised as a Northerner, Brock Marsh (Gary Merrill) intercepts Read More

The Last Posse

Actors: Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Charles Bickford, Wanda Hendrix, Warner Anderson

Synopsis: After his Oscar win for All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford found himself working out his Columbia contract in a string of rapidly deteriorating films. The Last Posse was a middling western, the sort that the studio sent out as bottom-of-bill attractions for their prestige pictures. The posse Read More

Sea of Lost Ships

Actors: John Derek, Wanda Hendrix, Walter Brennan, Richard Jaeckel, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Sea of Lost Ships is partly a tribute to the U.S. Coast Guard, but mostly a typical Republic Pictures melange of action, romance and suspense. John Derek plays Grad Matthews, descended from a long line of Coast Guard officers. Through a misunderstanding, Grad is booted out of the Coast Guard Read More

ABC Album: A Tale of Two Cities, Part 1

Actors: Wendell Corey, Carleton Young, Wanda Hendrix, Judith Evelyn

Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this 1953 television production centers on the love triangle between two men who each pine for the same woman. Just as the men come to terms with the complexities of the relationships, one of them is compelled to make an extraordinary sacrifice. Read More

The South of Algiers

Actors: Van Heflin, Wanda Hendrix, Charles Goldner, Jacques Francois

Synopsis: Released in Great Britain as South of Algiers, Golden Mask thrusts it main characters into the dangerous environs of North Africa. An archeological expedition has trekked to Sahara to locate the legendary golden treasure mask. Also on the trail is a gang of murderous thieves, who hope that the Read More

Montana Territory

Actors: Lon McCallister, Wanda Hendrix, Preston S. Foster, Hugh Sanders

Synopsis: Lon McCallister stars in the Columbia "B-plus" western Montana Territory. McCallister plays deputy John Malvin, whose loyalty to sheriff Plummer (Preston S. Foster) knows no bounds. What John doesn't know (but the audience does) is that Plummer is a bandit leader, using his sheriff's badge as a Read More

My Outlaw Brother

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, Carlos Muzquiz

Synopsis: This medium-budget western is also known as My Brother, the Outlaw and Outlaw Brother. Mickey Rooney plays an Eastern dude who heads westward to visit his brother Robert Stack. When ranger Robert Preston informs Rooney that Stack is a wanted outlaw, the Mick refuses to believe it. But when Read More

The Highwayman

Actors: Charles Coburn, Wanda Hendrix, Phillip Friend, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Jory

Synopsis: The Highwayman is based on the famous narrative poem by Alfred Noyes. The title character, played by Philip Friend, is a bold masked bandit of 18th-century England, who robs from the rich and gives (a little) to the poor. He is loved by Bess (Wanda Hendrix), the lovely daughter of an innkeeper. Read More

Captain Carey, U.S.A

Actors: Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix, Francis Lederer, Joseph Calleia, Celia Lovsky

Synopsis: Alan Ladd plays the title role in Captain Carey USA. A former OSS operative, Captain Carey returns to Italy after the war to avenge the death of resistance worker Giulia (Wanda Hendrix). Much to his surprise, Carey finds that his "deceased" lover is not only still alive, but also the wife of a Read More

Sierra

Actors: Audie Murphy, Wanda Hendrix, Dean Jagger, Burl Ives, Richard Rober, Sara Allgood

Synopsis: Audie Murphy and Wanda Hendrix were husband and wife when they co-starred in the Technicolor western Sierra. Murphy plays Ring Hassard, the son of outlaw Jeff Hassard (Dean Jagger), who despite his dad's reputation is basically a good kid. Hendrix portrays Riley Martin, a lady lawyer who hopes to Read More

The Admiral Was a Lady

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Sands, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: Wanda Hendrix is awfully cute as a WAVE officer who is endlessly pursued by lascivious men. Ex-airmen Edmond O'Brien, Johnny Sands and Steve Brodie spend most of their time chasing Wanda about, but she manages to keep them at arms' length. You see, she only has eyes for her boyfriend Dick Erdman Read More

Saddle Tramp

Actors: Joel McCrea, Wanda Hendrix, John Russell, John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan

Synopsis: Joel McCrea was still relatively new to westerns when he starred in Saddle Tramp. McCrea is cast as footloose and fancy free cowpoke Chuck Connor, who has no intention of settling down. Alas, this decision is made for him when Connor "inherits" the four recently orphaned sons of his best friend. Read More

Song of Surrender

Actors: Wanda Hendrix, Claude Rains, MacDonald Carey, Andrea King, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Though her acting range was limited, Wanda Hendrix was cute as all get out, and this cuteness is pretty much all that's required from her in Song of Surrender. The film is set in a small town of the early 1900s. Hendrix is cast as Abigail Hunt, the young bride of fiftyish museum curator Elisha Read More

Prince of Foxes

Actors: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Everett Sloane, Marina Berti, Katina Paxinou

Synopsis: Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Prince of Foxes is a cinemadaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's popular novel. Set during the Renaissance, the film stars Tyrone Power as Orsini, a good-will ambassador for scheming, covetous Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles). Orsini is aware that he is being used to Read More

Miss Tatlock's Millions

Actors: John Lund, Wanda Hendrix, Barry Fitzgerald, Monty Woolley, Robert Stack, Ilka Chase

Synopsis: A woman stands to inherit a fortune if she can get all her brothers and sisters in one place...which is far more complicated than it might sound. When the Tatlocks, a very wealthy couple, suddenly and unexpectedly die, the executor of the estate informs Nan Tatlock (Wanda Hendrix) that their will Read More

My Own True Love

Synopsis: After supervising several of the best "psychological" horror films ever made, producer Val Lewton shifted his base of operations from RKO to Paramount. Lewton's first project at his new studio -- and the last -- was My Own True Love, an uncharacteristically sentimental offering. Based on the novel Read More

Nora Prentiss

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: In this slick melodrama, a sort of film-noir for women, a nightclub singer has an affair with an unhappily married San Francisco doctor. Though the physician desperately wants to leave his wife, he lacks the courage to ask for a divorce. In retaliation, the singer accepts an offer to move East and Read More

Welcome Stranger

Actors: Don Beddoe, Bing Crosby, Lillian Bronson, Joan Caulfield, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank Faylen, Elizabeth Patterson, Charles Dingle

Synopsis: A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially dismayed by the new doctor's tendency to sing, a behavior the older fellow deems inappropriate. When the new doc meets a pretty young school teacher, romantic sparks fly. Read More

Ride the Pink Horse

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Rita Conde, Thomas Gomez, Iris Flores, Fred Clark, Andrea King, Art Smith

Synopsis: Robert Montgomery directed and starred in this exotic film noir set during a New Mexico fiesta. Montgomery plays a secretive ex-GI who plans to extort money from a prominent gangster (Fred Clark) as retribution for the death of Montgomery's best friend. An FBI man (Art Smith) would like the Read More

Variety Girl

Actors: Eric Alden, Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, William Bendix, MacDonald Carey, DeForest Kelley, William Demarest, Joan Caulfield, Stanley Clements, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for Paramount Studios in 1947. Mary Hatcher plays Catherine Brown, a woman of humble origins who arrives in Hollywood, where she meets another wanna-be movie star, Amber La Vonne Read More

Confidential Agent

Actors: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Wanda Hendrix, Peter Lorre, Katina Paxinou, Victor Francen, George Coulouris

Synopsis: A Graham Greene novel was the source of the Warner Bros. espionage thriller Confidential Agent. Charles Boyer stars as Denard, a former concert musician operating as anti-Fascist secret agent in the Spanish Civil War. While negotiating with the neutral British for some much needed fuel supplies Read More